The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, December 1, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 70 USPS 650-640
Kay gets assignment to regional EPA post
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
After a brief recess from politics, Lawrence Republican Morris Kay returned to public office yesterday with his appointment as new regional officer of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Kay, a 50-year-old insurance executive, will become the chief enforcement officer of EPA regulations for four states: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. The regional headquarters
Morris Kay
is in Kansas City, Mo.
After a series of sketchey reports yesterday morning, EPA officials confirmed yesterday afternoon that Kay had won a seat to become the new regional director.
ANNE GORSCH,
EPA director, made
the appointment offici
when she called
Kay at his Lawrence insurance office yesterday afternoon to offer her congratulations and talk about his new job.
Gorsuch, who made the final decision, selected Kay rather than Douglas County Commissioner Beverly Bradley or Iowa State Sen. Forrest Swengels.
Kay, who has worked at an insurance company since his Nov. 2 loss to Jim Slattery in the 2nd Congressional District race, said he looked forward to assuming his duties.
"I'm excited about it and eager to get started," he said. "I'm also excited about working with the administration. It is a very good position to Kansas and all of this region."
KAY SAID he would begin preparing for his new job, which pays $38,500 annually, during the next few days.
Rowena Michaela, regional EPA director of public affairs, said the transition period would include meetings with EPA officials, an evaluation process and regional project row underway.
Michael's also said Kay would face many difficult decisions once he began his new job.
"Hazardous waste is the No. 1 issue facing the region," she said. "He will have to grapple with the best way to handle the dioxin that has been found in St. Louis. Right now we are more active than any other branch because of the dioxin problem."
Michaelsa said the EPA was studying several proposals to eliminate the dioxin hovering over St Louis. Dioxin is a byproduct from the oxidation of hexa chlorophene, a bacterial agent, she said.
"ITS ALSO GOING to be a challenge to achieve an economic balance along with an environmental balance" she said. "We don't want to lose it, but we also want to maintain the environment."
Kay will not be alone when attempting to achieve those goals, Michaels said. There will be about 300 employees working under him, including chemists, engineers and biologists who closely monitor the four states, watching for violations of EPA regulations, she said.
"There is a lot of control in the hands of the regional administrator because of the de-centralization of the agency," she said. "He will also be in close contact with Washington."
The appointment generated much interest when Kannan two 's in Senate appeared to suspend his promise.
SEN, NANCY Lobden Kassebaum, R-Kan, lobbied for Bradley, who was considered by many to be the early front-runner for the job. But after the Nov. 2 election, Sen Bob Dole, R-Kan,
Late last summer, Kassebaum said that she had been given the job of finding a nominee. But a Kassebaum aide said the senator realized
Paul Estes edged the slippery step of Watson Library with "grip strips" yesterday to help Estes work for Kelly Waterproofing of Kanssas City, Mo.
Officials tour redevelopment sites
Weather
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of rain. The high will be around 50.
Today will be most cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers or thunder-showers, according to the National Weather Service. A warm, sunny day at 65 with southerly winds at 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. The low will in the low to mid-low tones.
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
Several city officials yesterday toured two redevelopment projects in retail areas of Pasadena, Calif., that were partially designed by one of the architects working on the downtown redevelopment project. Three of them said that the two historic buildings had been key parts of the projects.
The architect, John Stainback, is a director of planning and urban design for Daniel, Mann. Johnson & Mendenhall, which is the architectural firm working with Lawrence's chosen downtown development firm, Sizeler Realty Co. Inc., Kenner, La.
City Commissioner Tomean Gleason said the redevelopment projects in Pasadena had been completed.
"I think for what they have it we've a very encourag- ing," he said. "It seemed to be very thought out and used."
Gleason is attending the National League of
Cities meeting in Los Angeles with Mayor Maricl
Francisco, City Commissioner Don Bimie, City Manager Buford Watson and Assistant City
BUT MORE THAN that, Gleason said, Stainback and the other architects have shown that they considered the circumstances of each community.
"If the same attention is paid to the unique conditions of Lawrence, with the same degree of attention that went into doing that for Pasudae, should have a very successful project," he said.
Bims also toured the projects in Pasadena, but he was not particularly impressed.
"I didn't really see anything that was too impressive, frankly," he said. "All I saw in there was a little bit of historic preservation, which a lot of people in Lawrence are stuck on."
The projects in Pasadena involve a mall that covers three acres, and also a larger redevelopment of the downtown area. The mall is a part of that larger redevelopment, Gleason said.
"It's recognizing the market and meeting the need." he said.
But Bims said that the difference in size between the Pasadena projects and the proposed redevelopment of downtown Lawrence made a direct comparison impossible.
The development projects included some rehabilitation and renovation of older buildings.
Lawrence is considering a project of about 300,000 square feet, Bims said, but one of the major problems is that
THE PRESERVATION of the present character of downtown Lawrence and the maintenance of many of the present buildings points so far in the proposed redevelopment.
Binn said that Stainback had stressed his experience in preserving older buildings during earlier talks to the commission. However, Stainback insisted he would necessarily relate directly to Lawrence, he said.
Wildglen saw the restoration and renovation of older buildings in Pasadena were characteristics
Gleason and Bims said they had talked with other people at the meeting about Lawrence's
Man linked to Tylenol surrenders
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES—A man wanted for questioning in the seven tennel poisoning deaths, which terrorized the Chicago area and spread fear of the city's residents, was sent to the FBI and was held by police yesterday.
In Illinois, authorities said Kevin Masterson probably was not the Tylonol killer, but had made statements linking himself to the mass murder and would be asked to take a lie detector test.
A nationwide search continued for James W. Lewis and his wife, Leann. Lewis, named in a federal extortion lawsuit, is accused of writing to lawyers in Texas demanding $1 million "if you want to stop the killing."
THE POISONED Extra-Strength Tylenol killed people in the city area between $25 and $30.
Masterson, 35, of Lombard, III., who police said was so frightened by learning that he was wanted by the FBI that he lived in a car in the Bronx. He was arrested Monday at Los Angeles Monday afternoon and surrendered.
He was being held on an Illinois warrant charging him with possession of marijuana.
Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner told a news conference in Chicago that Masterson was not a suspect, but had "made statements to various people that he had a role in the poisoning." However, Fahner said, Masterson had "problems in the past."
"THINK HE will turn out to be someone who has said or done things but is not the on-again."
Fahnar said authorities want to give Masterson a polygraph test to determine "whether he was the bomber."
In Chicago, chief FBJ agent Tony Delorenzo said Masterson "waived extradition and will be returning shortly to Illinois. I don't know if it will be today, but shortly."
Fahner said police found "different and bizarre" writings at Masterson's suburban Lombard apartment, along with empty capsules. He did not describe the capsules.
FRIENDS TOLD investigators that Masterson held a grudge against Jewel Food Stores for filing shoplifting charges against his ex-wife in 1975, which he reportedly blamed for the breakup of his marriage. Some of the cyanide vapors poisoned Tylenol capsules and Jewel Food Stores.
The FBI had not realized Masterson was in the Los Angeles area, agent John Hoo said.
"He voluntarily appeared here for questioning as a possible suspect in the Tyloren case in 1965," he wrote.
Discovering that he was wanted on a marijuana possession charge in Du Page County, IL., the FBI detained him overnight at the West Los Angeles police station before turning him over to Los Angeles police in the morning.
DETECTIVE Tom Gorey, one of the arresting officers, said Masterson was "so scared" to learn the FBI was looking for him that he lived in his car in the desert for several days.
"Evidently the pressure was so great he decided to give himself up." Gorew said.
He described Masterson as "calm, very calm," when he was arrested.
Masterson was scheduled to be arraigned today police said.
Radar units help patrolmen curb speeding motorists
Molly Madden/KAIFAH KU Police Officer Kevin Johnson clocked the speed of passing traffic from his patrol car in front of Green Hall yesterday.
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
The driver cruised down the highway, mindless of the speed limit, when suddenly a police car pulled out from behind a clump of trees along the roadside, lights flashing and
Another motorist had been caught speeding by police radar.
James Denney, KU's directors of police, said radar guns allowed police to clock speeders and stop them.
PACING INVOLVES driving alongside a car to clock its speed. That puts two cars barreling back and forth.
"They're invaluable." Denney said. "With radar you don't have to pace speeders or clock them with a stopwatch."
And, Demmy said. "A stopwatch is not really facto to violators. There are too many human factors."
"I don't feel sorry for people who get caught by radar. It isn't fair to the rest of the community to get caught."
Police have used radar for the last 30 years to detect and identify speeding motorists. But a dilemma has surfaced recently about the validity of radar and its use as evidence in court.
A 1979 speeding case in Florida, a Dade County judge refused to allow radar readings to be taken.
Judge Alfred Nesbitt found that radar alone was too unreliable to sustain a speeding conviction. He dismissed 80 radar cases after the defense produced evidence that showed police radar clocking a tree at 84 mph and a house at 30 mph.
Nesbitt threw the cases out because of the
faulty readings and a lack of proper radar training by the Dade County Police.
The accuracy of radar units has been in question ever since.
Gene Greneken, senior research associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which has been conducting radar research, said the most effective approach with radar's use was "the untrained operator."
"WHEN USED under the proper conditions, radar is highly accurate," Greenerk said. "And it is better than having a cigar-chomping sheriff tell you how fast you were going."
The term radar comes from the phrase "radio detection and ranging." Radar guns operate on the Doppler effect by sending out a continuous radar beam with a specific modulation. The radar beacon bounces off moving vehicles and back to an antenna.
Stationary radar units emit only one radar signal. Moving-mode radar emits a low radar signal that monitors the patrol car's speed and a high signal that calculates the target vehicle's speed. The patrol car's speed is subtracted from the target vehicle's speed and then displayed.
Depending on the car's direction, the radar beam is bounced back either compressed or stretched. The car's speed is determined by the amount of reflection from the original beam and the bounced reflection.
Some states have set up stringent controls on the manufacturing of radar units and on the
In a report written after the tests, the bureau failed to adopt any official standards, but it did make several recommendations that states have used when setting their standards.
IN 1977, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted tests in conjunction with the National Bureau of Standards on two different models of radar units commonly used
FLORIDA, TEXAS and Michigan have developed standards for radar units. Michigan requires that radar units in use by Oct. 1, 1963, have an audio tone that matches the radar's frequency. In 1970, Michigan also forbids radar units in use after October to have an automatic lock feature.
training an officer must go through before operating the units, according to state laws.
Texas requires officers to receive radar training before operating radar units.
Maj. Stuart Elliott of the Kansas Highway Patrol said that the state of Kansas did not require standards on radar usage, but that the Highway Patrol did.
The Highway Patrol requires its officers to go through 50 hours of training before operating radar units. The officers are taught how to use radar and how to visually estimate the speed of
"Regular officers have a considerable amount of training before we allow them to use radar."
DENNEY SAID that all of KU's officers had been trained by a representative from Kustom Electronics, manufacturers of KU's only radar unit.
"I'm constantly amazed at police department that get radar and don't train officers to use them."
Jerry Miller, customer services representative of Kustom Electronics of Chanute, one of the nation's two largest manufacturers of radar equipment, said the radar had never been upheld by Kansas courts
Neither Elliott nor Denney could recall any speeding cases successfully challenging radar's accuracy in Kansas. Each said his department's 50 percent having over 60 percent in most trials involving radar
Elliott said if a radar case had ever been
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